HRIS and Company Culture

About 10 years ago, there was a conference promoting a particular brand of HRIS. In the conference, prospect client asked the speaker as to how they can avoid automated HR programs destroying their company culture since they are used to face-to-face collaboration. The speaker was froze dead. She cannot answer the question coherently and instead resorted to emphasizing that automation reduces turn-around-time.

The question became one of those hush-hush small talk during the break. It gave some valid insight as to how important it is for technology to synchronize with company culture. 

Its not that most of the participants in the conference were against their HRIS. Its just that their bosses who were business owners are more concerned with the tangible and measurable advantages of automation (reporting, faster turn-around-time and paperless documentation) instead of engineering technology to fit the existing culture (or perhaps improve it). 

Maybe the business owners were not overt in communicating the company culture they want to have? Maybe the company culture promoted by their own companies is just lip service? Maybe HRIS provider failed in explaining how they can engineer technology to go well with company culture?

A year passed after that conference and I haven't heard of the HRIS provider anymore. I suspect they closed down.